Supreme Court restores gay marriage in California

People wait outside the Supreme Court in anticipation of key decisions being announced, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, June 17, 2013. With a week remaining in the current Supreme Court term, several major cases are still outstanding that could have widespread political impact on same-sex marriage, voting rights, and affirmative action. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Supreme Court restores gay marriage in California

The Supreme Court let a lower court ruling stand which overturned an anti-gay marriage ballot referendum in California today, making it the 13th state to recognize same-sex marriage.Gay marriage is now legal in all of New England, parts of the East and West coasts and a portion of the Upper Midwest. It remains against the law in much of the interior West, most of the Midwest and all of the South.The Supreme Court decision means that 95 million Americans now …